The earliest customers to pre-order the Steam Deck were set to recieve their units in the matter of a single month, as Valve's take on a portable gaming PC was planned for release this December. However, that is no longer the case, as they've sent out an email to affected customers saying that the Steam Deck's launch is being pushed back by two months. This is supposedly due to material shortages, with Valve claiming that they were unable to get the parts to manufacture units and get them sent out by next month. The Steam Deck is now due to ship out in February 2022.

The launch of Steam Deck will be delayed by two months. We're sorry about this—we did our best to work around the global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components aren’t reaching our manufacturing facilities in time for us to meet our initial launch dates.

Based on our updated build estimates, Steam Deck will start shipping February 2022. This will be the new start date of the reservation queue—you will keep your place in line but dates will shift back accordingly. Reservation date estimates will be updated shortly after this announcement.

Again, we're sorry we won’t be able to make our original ship date. We'll continue working to improve reservation dates based on the new timeline, and will keep you updated as we go.

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[Kioku]

Well, that's dumb, but it works for me.. Gives me more time to decide if I want one or not.

 

[MasterJ360]

I ended up canceling my order this will just end up like trying to get a ps5 all over again

 

[Plazorn]

Screw you Valve! I was looking forward to watching a RelaxingEnd unboxing video of it soon!

 

[Deleted member 546149]

Well, that's dumb, but it works for me.. Gives me more time to decide if I want one or not.

Come on let's be fair.
Lots of people are ordering

 

[pedro702]

so first batch gets delayed by 2 months lol the batches after that will keep getting delayed again and again i bet, this will be worse than ps5 imo.

 

[Jean Karlo]

I ended up canceling my order this will just end up like trying to get a ps5 all over again

This is the most asinine response to this when "your order" is a literally guaranteed

 

[MasterJ360]

This is the most asinine response to this when "your order" is a literally guaranteed

Your welcome Jean I hope I made your day better with my asinine response. I have a PC I'll be fine

 

[Kioku]

Come on let's be fair.
Lots of people are ordering

....what? I already have a pre-order up, just deciding if I want to keep it or not.

 

[gaga941021]

Well, that's dumb, but it works for me.. Gives me more time to decide if I want one or not.

I don't see the correlation.

 

[XDel]

The worst is yet to come, the path to 2030 will not be pleasant. Enjoy your freedom while you can.

 

[bonkmaykr]

I actually didn't order mine on Day 1 like I wanted to, because I thought that I had to pay the fully price on that same day.

yes i'm smooth brain thank you for asking

Anyway at least they're being honest about it. I expected Feb 2022 to be the release date anyhow.

 

[Kioku]

I don't see the correlation.

....what? I already have a pre-order up, just deciding if I want to keep it or not.

 

[LeyendaV]

I don't see how this could surprises you.

 

[bonkmaykr]

I don't see how this could surprises you.

I mean... shipping bottlenecks and chip shortage has been a thing for ages now.

 

[0x3000027E]

Does this mean that more pre-orders will open up now that people will be cancelling? I would still like to get on the list.

 

[djpannda]

Does this mean that more pre-orders will open up now that people will be cancelling? I would still like to get on the list.

Im pretty sure the preorder was never closed... you were just placed on the end of the list Q3.. which now will be Q4 at least

 

[Plazorn]

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The earliest customers to pre-order the Steam Deck were set to recieve their units in the matter of a single month, as Valve's take on a portable gaming PC was planned for release this December. However, that is no longer the case, as they've sent out an email to affected customers saying that the Steam Deck's launch is being pushed back by two months. This is supposedly due to material shortages, with Valve claiming that they were unable to get the parts to manufacture units and get them sent out by next month. The Steam Deck is now due to ship out in February 2022.



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Sorry to break it to you @Chary, but @subcon959 posted this 5 minutes before you did

 

[Chary]

Sorry to break it to you @Chary, but @subcon959 posted this 5 minutes before you did

that's cool, but it wasnt in news format

 

[Deleted member 194275]

Sorry to break it to you @Chary, but @subcon959 posted this 5 minutes before you did

usually GBATemp staff usually come after some user for everything. But front page nowadays belongs to official writers.